The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-12 00:00:00

COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their owu Collieries. Marquis'. 23s. per ton. I Double.. 20s. per ton. Top 225. „ Deep ....21s. „ Well screened and delivered within live miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, l'addington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. nest Colt , . lss. per chaldron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Lzoit. E THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING - INTELLIGENCE, :au be had Every Evening of G. K. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST' EDITION of THE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every Evening by HENRY BROOKS, iSewspaper Agent, 24, Old Cavenuisti street, W. The Weather—Sun Office, Aug. 12, 1864. 4-- THERMOM ETER. This day at Two o'clock 6.5 __ __ _ Barometer-30•?G WIND—S.W. ; moderate breeze, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS am—Morning, Bd. 10m.—Afternoon, Bh. 45m. ra-tacnalow.-Morning, 9h. 26m.—Afternoon, 10h. 24:11. jg our LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1864. The waning of the splendour of cur flower gar dens is among the regular signs of the passing away of bummer; and the autumnal months, though lighting the monarchs of the woods with tints and shades which some think eclipse even the fresh ver dure of the spring, are only looked to by the humble floriculturist as bringing the first signs of decay and desolation. The limited gardens in the metropolis and its vicinity generally give early evidence of the charge, perhaps because their owners are in the habit of taking flight themselves early in autumn, and are therefore indifferent to the appearance of their gardens and conservatories when the reign of the rose is over. There is very little doubt that, with proper care in the selection of plants, and a due regard to their natural seasons for floweriog, a garden even in this climate may be induced to pre serve a cheerful appearance through the greater part of the year. This is the fact which Sir JOSEPH 'PAXTON, no mean authority in the art of external decoration, has taken the opportunity of bringing under public notice in a letter addressed to the assistant secretary of the Royal Horticultural So ciety. Now the din of Parliamentary battle is for awhile suspended, and argument, lamentation, and recrimination have been well nigh exhausted about the D inish Duchies—while the American war goes on its endless round, and we have no more exciting subject to divert our attention than murders and suicides, experiments at Snoeburyness, and madmen in railway carriages, Sir JOSEPH PAXTON pro bably supposes that his remarks on the principles of horticulture generally are less likely to pass un. heeded than in the earlier days of the season. Per. haps he thought, too, that the moral of his story would receive a better illustration now than when flowers abound on every side, and botanic shows and exhibitions are the order of the day. It is with regard to the merits and defects of these exhibitions that Sir JOSEPH PAXTON has written his letter, having bean requested to give his opinion as to the nature and character of the exhibitions which it is most desirable that the Royal Horticultural Society should encourage for " the true advancement of horticulture and its accompanying sciences. In the first place, Sir JOSEPH is by no means satisfied with the existing state of things, notwithstand ing the gorgeous array visible at some of oar fl o wer shows. The general condition of our horticulture is he considers artificial and unnatural, and he attributes this principally to the arrange ment of our exhibitions. They have, he considers, been advantageous in encouraging improvements in the culture and, management of plants, but the good which they have effected has not been unmixed. Owing to the time of the year in which they are held, the efforts of cultivators are exclusively directed to the prcduction of such plants as will bloom at the London season, to the total disregard of ad other periods. Some plants are forced, others are artificially kept back, so that all may flower together, thus crowding into a month or t To the -Laments of the year, and entirely neglect ing those plants which will not submit to Such meddlesome interference. Some years ago, the critic tells us, he called to see a first class Lon• don garden of great repute. It was an exhibition day, end so only a few lonely plants were visible. I Again he called later in the season, but the sho g . days were altogether over, so there was no tejrc t sl stem h a d b ege,a, anti alol be seen, for the t rainin g w. a i n preparation for tae next year" competition. If the efforte of the Horticule ar 4 Society are directed to securijg the greatest number and most beautiful display of plants In the half-dezen exhi bition days o,e the London season they are certainly successful, but if their object is rather to en courage horticulture as a science, then these " spasueodic efforts," as Sir JOSEP H PAXTON terms them, which leave a great part of the year unemployed and unproductive, are not altogether satisfactory. The exhibition syetern has certainly succeeded in producing a wonderful : degree of perfection in those kinds of flowers which are exhibited, and they have also given a stimulus to the culture of foliage plants which preserve a gard'an from the desolation of winter, still there remains a good deal more to be done before the objects of the society are fully attained. The true object of horticulture, according to Sir JOSEPH PAXTON'S view, is "to increase the enjoyment des rivable from it, and to diffuse it as widely as pos• sible ; to enable the owners of gardens to get the greatest amount of pleasure and satisfaction from their possessions, and to enable the general public to procure the greatest num'oer of fruit, flowers, and vegetables, in the greatest quantity, of the best kinds, and at the cheapest priets." These are certainly all matters of public concern, and, indeed, since the new fashion of choosing suburban residences has been so exten sively followed, great numbers are interested in the consideration of the best method of gardening, who of old scarcely gave a thought to the matter. It is one of the most graceful of sciences, while the cul ture of these beautiful works o 2 nature is among the most innocent and healthful of recreations for the mind and exhausted energies. Its tendency is soothing and refining, and is to be by no means despised as a means of diffusing taste and cultiva tion. Let us see how Sir JOSEPH PAXTON proposesto encourage this taste. There should, he thinks, be something like a continuous exhibition, so that gardeners should have no intert st in forcing their plants into flower at unnatural seasons, nor should they be induced to neglect those which blossom at nn fashionable times of the year. At one time the Horticultural Society had fortnightly shows at their great room in Regent-street, where nursery men brought their new plants or fruits, or any unusually beautiful specimens at any time of the year. This was, Sir JOSEPH thinks, a very bene ficial practice, and he proposes that something of the kind should be restored. During the spring and summer months he would have the exhibitions weekly, and have them held in a place where they might be suffered, wheu owned by nurserymen, to remain all the time they were in flower. This would be independent of the great exhibitions which are too beautiful and too fashionable to be altogether abandoned, but some supplementary effort of the kind would probably do great good. Weekly or fortnightly exhibitions would probably be too frequent at least at first, but monthly or quarterly shows might with advantage be esta blished. At all events the question is sufficiently interesting to deserve attentive consideration. The Report of the Directors of Convict Prisons is now published, and its contents are sure to attract attention at this juncture, since so much excitement has prevailed on the subject for some time, and during the past session eo much pains was taken to eff,ct some desirable changes in the department re lating to convict discipline. It was time that the question again underwent revision, for grievous errors had crept into the management, and if no• thing of a remedial nature had been done it is diffi- cult to say at what point the evil would have stopped, and at all events it would have been more tedious to make a change. The greatest care and attention appears generally to be exercised by the authorities whose special duty it is to have the supervision of these unhappy outcasts ; but it is a very difficult thing to determine which is the best mode of treatment, and after the mature delibera tions of experienced men of all kinds, the matter has to be left to the test of practice. That teat Ilan shown us that the latest attempt to temporise with crime, as it were, has been an utter failure. Stern land vigorous treatment i 3 the only right course to pursue; it is useless to adopt a line of action which may make the working of the prison routine more easy and successful for the time, but infallibly re sults in the production of serious evils, both to the men themselves and society at large. Two causes of the late plan pursued of rendering the term of imprisonment so easy to pass and E 0 shorn of the terrorsof the law tended to swell the lists of returned prisoners. In the first place, the notion of penal ser vitude was in a great measure divested of its horrors by the facile manner in which the prisoners were treated; and, secondly, the easy life passed in their bondage did not improve the check that a course of salutary discipline would most probably have effected. On all accounts it is very satisfactory to know that a change has come over the spirit of this dream of utopian convict life, for the reaction would have been great after to much false laxity and moderation had been shown. The plans now pro posed are but simple modifications of the system, but they are begun in the right spirit, and if not found to be sufficiently stringent, it will be easy to make still more severe regulations. The Directors have made a most elaborate statement, and been at great pains to present a fair estimate of the state of each prison. It will be seen that the ticket-of leave system was in want of some change ie consequence of the number of re - convictions. Toe number of the female prisoners who were re convicted has hitherto been much less than that of the males, hut of late years there has been a great increase. The cause of this unhappy augmentation has been said to be the " comparatively short sen tences of recent years, the want of means for assisting and supervising them on discharge, and in some degree, perhaps, from defective prison arrangements." Doubtless the short sentences ',net have been passed of late years have done great harm, for in the cases of the most desperate assaults it has often happened that a moat inade quate term for confinement has been apportioned. It is a most unwise thing, for the ends of justice are not answered by this means, and all reports agree in denouncing the practice. The criminals come to consider the whole affair of the trial, sen tence, and imprisonment, as a sort of farce, and one merely to be got through as quick as possible. The question of providing shelter and reapioyment for the discharged prisoners, especie.tly the female ones, is a very serious consideratt on . It i s a p a i n _ ful picture which the returns present to us of these i fallen creatures, driven fr am one pl ace t o anot h er, till in sheer desperatir Ai they ar e o f ten compelled to take refuge with Cecil* old associates. Besides, the prisoners who ;;now every desire to become reformed members of society, the wavering and even evil dis posed might teften b© reclaimed if the right means were at hand on a timely opportunity. It is im possible to define a limit to the number who would be induc ed to change thei r ways, if i mme di ately after } ;nay emerge from the quiet and comparative in - eocence of their course in prison some fitting em ployment were ready for them. This again p roves U lu desirability of sending convicts who are sentenced for long periods to Western Australia. Their removal would leave morn scope for theirconfederates in crime whose shorter sentences send them out again on the world after a brief period of detention. In the contemplation of reports many only look to the sta• tisticai part of the affair, as to how many suffered imprisonment, for what cause they were convicted, and how often they were re-convic ed ; but spar. from these established facts there are grave matters to reflect upon concerning the inner details of those lives of which we are furnished with the broad out lines. Until some important change has been effected in that branch of prison management which rofer3 to the career of the prisoner alter he Las l alt prison, there will always be much to deplore and lam ent in the returns presented to notice every success ive year. Some very desirable changes have been th lade at Millbank, in pursuance of the advice tendered by the Commission of 1863. The period of separate confinement which each convict has to and ago at the commencement of his term of i mprisonment has been rendered more in acccldance with the spirit of such a sentence, than on iy the latter, as has hitherto been too much the case, and already some beneficial changes have been observed. It has also been agreed upon to alter the dietary in the prisons, and in cons( querice of this revolution an amended form has been instituted, which involves a very largo reduction in the old scale of diet. Nearly one day's food in the week has been struck off the aggregate allowance. This is a very wise alteration, and it is to be hoped that the same course will be pursued in all prisons, and persieed in notwithstanding any temporary out breaks or disturbances that may result therefrom, It stands to reason that the old fashion of pamper ing prisoners was a very impolitic one, and likely to be productive of the worst effects as regarded discipline, and involving a salutary change in the lives and dispositions of these men. The arrange ments have also been altered regarding the public work prisons, and more strict rules laid down. The sub-divisions made will make separation between the prisoners more than has hitherto been the case, and this again will doubtless operate to effect a salutary change, it having been shown that there wera "evils attendant on the massing together of such large bodies of convicts as are assembled on the public works." A very satisfactory account is given of the successes met with by the Prisoners' Aid Society. It is stated that no less than five hundred and odd cages were undertaken by it in one year, and the large majo. rity of these were satisfactorily provided for. At the conclusion of this report a very proper tribute is paid to the memory of Sir JOSHUA JEBB, out doubt he rendered great and important services to the State by the z !al and ability which he dis played in the conduct of the intricate affairs which he was called upon to manage, and it is truly stated here that, whatever changes recent experience may deem desirable, " no one conversant with the state of the hulks and English prisons when he was called on by the Government to undertake their manage ment, can fail to acknowledg,e the debt of gratitude that is due to the late Sir JOSUHA JEBB." 31- R. ALFRED MEL LON'S . CONCERTS EVER EVENING, at Ei g ht. —ROY AL IT ALIAN VPT.RA, COVENT -GARDEN. The fol'owing A rtistes will appear This Evening :--Mdl!e Carrodus. Carlot t a Patti, Mdlle. Mari e Krebs ; Mr. Levy, Mr. , Ali Ben Sou-alle. and Mr. Allred Mellen's GLEE UNION. Grand Opera tic Selection from LA FAVO RITA. BAND OF ONE HIINDBED PERFORMERS. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Pro menade, Amphitheatre S talls, and Amphithea're, One 'I'D-morrow (Saturday, the First Vo:unteer Night. p OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Hanauer, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOJD LUCK. Paddy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. Alter which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. 3lessr3. Fining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, 11. Forreter. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry AlalStoll, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss F ,nny Gwynne. -kiTeM T REAIRE-1-10 YAL, ADELPELL .. , ..)if3 Prourliator and Manarror, m.r. R. Webster. TIIIS EVENING, TUE FLOWERS OF TUE FOREST. liiitsbrs. J. L. Toole , P. Bedforff, Billington, Stuart , Steph. enßil - n .ttom.r; Miss W ool g ar, Hiss K. Kelly. and Mrs *tngion. After which, at 10, THE ACTOR'S RETREAT. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. 13eci:ord, IL PhilL a, and Miss Woolg .r 'To conclude with a new Farce, called MY WIVE' 6 MAID. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, and Mr:. Alfred Mellon. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Xr. B. WEBSTER. Last Night of the present Season. THIS EVENING (Friday), 12th August. fur the Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mathews, and last night of their engk;e men., a new Comedy, in 3 acts, by Arthur Sket hley, Esq. will commence Tvith an en- At 7 o'clock the perform rice, tirely new and or iginal__ , :9medY , entitled How WILL Character • by Mr. and Mrs. C. THEY GET our oF"-" , Mathews, Mr. and Mrs Frank Matthews, Mr. F. itobinson, mr. B. J. mon t a gue, Miss Wentworth, and airs. Stir,ing. To be followed by the new Travestie, entitled FAUST AND 31A. K GUERITE : Mr. Chas. Mathews, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. A.shlty, Mr. Montague, Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mr. W. Chamberiaine, and Mrs, C. Mathews. To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE. Mr. Ashley, and miss A. Cottrell. COUNTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street, have now in stock a variety of WASHING srLic. DRESSES, suitatle for the country and seaside, and at the c.earing,-out puke of only ed. the dress. JAY'S, 247, 249, and 251, Regent-street. BLACK SILKS.—The price of Saks in the raw .material has already r sen 15 per cent, and it will soon reach a far treater per-centage. alessrs. thereto, e, iavite their numerous patrons to take aciv.tntage of the stock they have on hand, which they can now di spo, of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will natur mure c 4 ,,,t1y as the price of siiktluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 219, and 251, Regent-street. TIM SUN LONDON, FEIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1864. BANK OF FRANCE. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) PARIS, August 11. The following is the return of the Batik of France for the week, together with the corresponding figures of the previous account : AUGUST 11. AUGUST 4. Dn. t, c, t c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition toCapital _ _ (Art. 3 law June 9 ,1557) 5,114,862 43 5,096,101 60 Reserve in the Bank and its branches Reserve in landed property 4,000,000 4,000,003 Notes in circulation 777,023,925 786,02.94.5 Bank notes to order and re- ceipta payable at sight 6,233,349 15 6,056,549 08 Treasury acJ. cur, creditor 57,VG8,339 40 55,941,233 85 Current accounts—Paris 122,254,979 44 126,954,304 14 Do. branch-banks 26,611,833 30,859,5J1 Dividends payable Discuunts and sundry interests.. Re-discounts of the last aii month& .. Sundries 1,231,833,415 85 1,247,860,613 46 CR. Cash in hand and branch- banks 272,433,487 38 276,790,392 90 Commercial bills overdue 3,246,818 11 1,108,552 95 Commercialbillsdiscounted not yet clue ...330,403,019 35 3133,825,472 33 Do. branch-banks 303,092,556 312,079,470 Advances on deposits of bullion Do. branch- banks 3,9.57,700 4,104,300 Advances on Frenchputiic securitiesn Do. branch-banks 9,412,8A 9,511,050 Ad %%laces rliiway shares ana debentures .. 27,792,900 28,389,500 Do. branch-hanks.... 18,704,050 18,571,050 Advances on Credit Fon- cier Bonds 395,000 376.100 Do. branch-banks 356.900 367,100 Advances to the State (Conven. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Guvt. Stock Reserve 12,98u,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Rentes imutobilisees (Law June 9, 1857) Hotel and furniture of the I Bank Landed property, branches Expenses 01 uninageuirAat 712,9,21 54 690,476 51 Sundries 1'31,833,445 85 1,247,860,613 46 Certified by the Honoeary Vice-Pregdent of the Council of State, Governor of the Bank, AD. ITUITRY. The Hospital for Consumption, Brompton, A quarterly general court of the governors of this charity was held yesterday afternoon in the board room of the hospital. The meeting was pre sided over by Sir Peter Van Notten-Pole, Bart. The Secretary read the report of the eommittee of management for the past quarter, which stated that both as regarded in and out-patients there had been an increase of good d one as compared with the g quarter o f t h e preceding year. It chiefly owi ng to the large number of c w o a r s r , es n p o o d n o d u in b admissions consequent upon the maximu: A number of 210 beds having been filled at ar.', earlier period of the winter than usual that . (be committee was enabled to have the satisfac' .ion of an noun cing that the number of apPlic , :ats waiting vacancies was, though still large, less than it had been for some time past. Th - , committee had been encouraged by the access'.on of several names to the list of guver "rs, and by much valuable aid they had received tr - Jm the clergy, while th`-ir thanks were especially due to the Bishops of Ripon, Bal,gor, Ei y, o,sory, and Down and Connor for the able manner in which they had Pleaded the cause of the charity. Many kind donations had also resulted from the appeals inserted from time to time in the newspapers, al though the total amount received from that source had been less than on some previous occasions. Unless, L w oever, the cwncoittee chose t o safer the charity to languish for want of funds they had no ai t .ernative but to continue their appeals to the pub lic for support in every way that was open to them, so long as the annual expenditure of the institution exceeded the annual subscriptions to the extent of upwards of £4,000. With the help of several lega cies that had recently been paid the committee hoped to be enabled before long to effect the desir able object they had long aimed at, and w hich had peen formerly mentioned, namely, t h e purc hasing of the freehold of the land on whi c h t h e h os pital was built. During the past quarter four bequests to the charity of £lOO each, one of £l,OOO, one of £5OO, one of £3OO, one of £5O, and one of £lO had been announced to the committee. The number of in-patients admitted since the 26th of May last had been 213. Of these 182 had been discharged, 'many of them greatly benefited, and 23 had died. The number of new out patient cases was stated to be 1,521. The Hon. E, B. C. WROTTESLEY moved the adoption of the report, which having been seconded by Mr C. E. K. Butler, was adopted; tAnd after the transaction of some business of a formal cha racter, the proceedings closed with the customary vote of thanks to the chairman. CROSSING THE ATLANTIC IN A BOAT.—Oti Sunday, the 26th of June, the miniature brig Vision, the smallest craft that has ever yet attempted to cross the Atlantic, departed from the Battery at New York, direct for Liverpool. She sailed out in gallant style, with colours flying, manned by a crew consisting • of John C. Donovan and his dog Toby, and one man, named Williams, from Rhode Island, Her departure was witnessed by a large number of people, who remained, despite the intense heat, until the vessel became a speck on the water. Yes terday we received information that the Coronet, from Qtiebeo, at London, had spoken the tiny craft at sea, she being then out 24 days, and having reached lat. 45 10 N., long. 53 W., or the vicinity of Cape Race. " All hands" were well, but short of provisions and water, which the Coronet eupplieci,—Z3verofi iAlfrowY, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. IREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (Per the Extra Steamer Caledonian via Cape Race and Greencastle.) NEW YOBK, AUG. 1. On the 30th ult. General Grant blew up a Con federate fort at Petersburg, He then assaulted and carried a line of Confederate entrenchments. An entire regiment was destroyed together with the fort. The battle was still progressing on Saturday at noon. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : SUEZ, AUG. 11. The Behar from Bombay, July 24, reached Suez at 7 p.m. tooday. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG, 12. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Seine, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 1'77 passengers, 2,585,301 dollars in specie, and 1,183 pockages of general cargo. The Seine left St. Thomas on the 28th ult. Fine weather prevailed. Her Majesty's ship Devastation left Panama cal the 11th ult. for Vancouver's Island. At Valparaiso the Congress was engaged in reor ganising the various courts of justice in the Repub lic, and planning the statutes of a National Bank. The deputies are exasperated at the Cabinets withholding from them the correspondence on the Hispans•Peruvian question. The smallpox was infesting the northern pro vinces. At Huasco 400 persons were suf f ering from the epidemic. Frequent and strong earthquakes were felt at Valparaiso and the neighbouring districts. In Peru the utmost exertions were used by the Government to have all war vessels in readiness, when it is ascertained how the Spanish Admiral will act on receipt of fresh instructions. Nothing further had transpired relating to th e difficulty between Spain and Peru. Valparaiso exchange on London 44i-d to 45d; on Paris, 4.65 to 4.70. Lima exchange, 37d per dollar. News from Santo Domingo announces that the Dominicans had entrenched themselves around Puerto Plata, but failed to do much damage. The 3 had suffered considerably from five Spanish guns. The Spanish steamer Hamburg, arrived at Havana with 400 wounded and sick from Santo Doming 3. A correspondent writing from Santo Domingo, says that large numbers of rebels are preparing to make a last effort at Santiago de los Caballeros. The discouragement amongst the Dominicans gains ground, and the insurrection is fast coming to an end. At Demerera general business was quiet, rum was in fair demand, sugar dull, tonnage ample, weather showery but favourable to the crops, Freight of sugar to Loudon 30d, Exchange on London 476 dols. A favourable change has taken place in the weather at Barbadoes, and the prospects of the planters were encouraging, The health of the island was good. Exchange on London, 485 d o l e . Rum, abundant. At Grenade, sugar cane, notion, and cocoa 'ere in a promising condition, Business WAS rapidly improving, The prospects of next yeaz's crops at Jamaica was encouraging. Sugar sales, 2,35. to 265. per hundred pounds. 11.-.4m,27a, per gallon. Tobacco dull. Coffee scs-. 00 . s a l es, 60s. to 625. Exchange, half per co a t, premium for 90 days. LATEST FROM BERMUDA. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 11. The fine steamer Hayti, Captain Gilberry, be longing to the West India and Pacific Steamship Company (Limited), arrived in the Mersey last night, wit n dates from Bermuda to the 27th ult, She brings a large and valuable cargo, including upwards of 500 bales of cotton. The following h!ockade runners were at Bermuda :—The steamers Dieppe, Flamingo, Mary Bowers, and Lillian. The latter had put back in consequence of her crew ha;ing refus-d to proceed on the voyage. The steamer Let her Rip had ar r iv e d at Wilmington, and bad been chartered by the Government for harbour oily. Captain ALB', late of the Florida, had beeu ordered by the Confederate Government to the James River, to take command of an ironclad gun boat building there, The s teamer Helen bad sailed for Wilmington. SPAIN. MADRID, AVG. 12 . The frigate Carmen has received orders to sail for the Pbeific. A CAtalonian commission has arrived at Madrid and will confer with the Government upon the means of terminating the industrial criie. FRANCE• 1 The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the follo w i ng as th e atmosp h er ic state of Europe ye s terday :—" A very h eav y e quall coming from th e North of Europe has rapidly invaded the centre of the Continent, extending from the NE, of Fran cc to the greater part of Russia. There is reason to tear th a t i t w i ll cont i nue to fall as far as th e Nlvditerran ean . Th e b aro meter has rapidly risen on the west ern coasts o f E u rope, and the mistral is blowing on that of provence. Th is s quall, which probably i s not i solate d , an d the state of the w i n d s and barom etr i ca l pressure s on the coasts of th e Atlantic, m a k e us presume that another is following closely." The Moriifetir de la _Rate states that by a re cent decree th e salar i es of t h e na val chaplains a re fi xe d as follows t —Ch ap l a i n .i n -Chief of the fleet f rom B,ooofr. t o 10,000 fr. a . yea r ; superio r c h ap l a i ns, 5,000 f r. ; chaplains of the fleet and of the ports, Ist clae 0, 2,5C0fr.; 2d class , 2,000 fr. They have aiso an ind emn i ty f or l o dging and fu rn i ture , an d an allowan ce f or the win e and waz light s use d a t the altar, BOURSE, O ng . 11.—The arrival of Eogli s h Con sols with rise of j has failed to produce any up ward move ment in this rairket, which still continues in the same inanimate state. Threes, for the Ac count, are onvaried at 66f. 45c, Mobilier have been done at 1,005 E, and are now at I,olof. Railway Shares show but slight variation, with little doing. The market closed as follows : 4t per Cents .. 95 Do. owl per Cents Do. end month 66 40 Credit Mobilier..., 1007 50 Do, end menth 1007 50 sank Shares 3390 Credit Fancier 1215 Roman ' Italian Loan 68 Do. end mouth 68 35 Ditto Threes, Now Mexican 66 25 Russian — --• Austrian Spanieh Threos 19 50 iiolllo Debt Deferrel LI A National Benefactor's Autobiography. Passages of a Working Life during Half.a Century. By Charles Knight. Vols. I. and 11. Bradbury and Evans. Beginning life as a publisher and bookseller, the writer of this manly and charming autobiography has long since assumed to himself a yet more re cognisable position, and in his instance it is one of very considerable eminence, as a man of letters. Charles Knight we know now-a-days far more as a man of letters than as a publisher and bookseller. Regarded in the latter capacity he is to be 87 . ; 03, only, as it were, in perspective. It seems tow s a long , while now since he kept a printing establishment at 'Windsor and a bookshop in ":„. ali man. we have to look beck beyond a coa Atderable interval even to recognise him as he yr, as when he had his name issued from the press, ',zeroes his own counter in Ludgate hill, at the bottom far more frequently than at about the ch s ::idle of many a popular and widely circulating plsioication. Yet further back, he has here intro duced himself to us at the very commencement of these ingenuous memorials of his Life—a life, let us say at once, as honourable from first to last as it nits been laborious throughout—beyond the open ing of this present century, we there behold him as he appears to himself in his own retrospec tive glance as among the earliest of his personal recollections we there behold him yonder dwindled down, as it were, by a mere effort of distance into the appearance of a little child in a white frock and a black sash I A halls orphaned child, then but very recently bereft of his young mother, and as, by a natural consequence of that event, fairly idolised by the poor sorrow stricken widower his father—a Windsor trai. eaman , more noticeable as a book worm than aPa bookseller. Between that far-off period anfl . the present hour stretch back the years deac:ioed in this truthful and graceful auteibiogra;4. The interval—as will be found, indeed , .uhave been pretty clearly intimated here nl 3 °':, our author's title-page—the goodly in terv:si extending between the Now and 'Then being made up of fully Haif-a-Ceutury of a genuine Working Life—led off, that half century of a Work ing Life, by a " Prelude of Early Recollections." The result of it all being —what is here most interestingly related by Mr Knight himself, but what we as among those numerous and grateful admirers of his,whom he has for years been helping so largely to benefit by his labours—knew to a great extent before any of these memorials appeared, knew, that is to say, from the niece facts and fruits of those very labours them selves. For, applying here that happy phrase of 'Wordsworth's about the child being father of the man, may we riot put it thus—that the little child in the white frock and she black sash has developed into a man sufficiently noteworthy to be entitled, as we have here eagerly and gladly entitled him at the commencement of these remarks, namely, as "'A National Benefactor ?" Is he not so ? Answer this —any number that may 'anywhere be found of really intelligent and educated Englishmen! For, in point of tact, in simplest truth, what are among the many conspicuous titles to oar gratitude, towards Charles Knight as a Popular Benefactor P He hes done more practical good sere ice than any other English Worker that could be named in furthering the great cause of Popular Education. He has done single-handed among Englishmen in this cause, in the interests of this cause, in its general and comprehensive deve lopment, what William and Robert Chambers have done together among Set:lima:len. And—without acing in any way invidious wnile saying so—we would here add that ()aeries Knight has, in simple [natter of fast, done yet more than those two emi nent popular publishers of Edinburgh. The com parison between the two houses, between that of the Englishman and that of the Scotchmen, has been originated, not by ourselves, but by one of our contemporaries. Therefore it is that, without any imputation of appearing invidious while doing so, we may here strenuously protest, as we feel constrained in fact to do, out of a mere sense of justice, we may here strenuously protest against any pre-eminence being accorded to Robert Chambers over Cnarles Knight. They are worthy rivals, they are worthy contemporaries ; but, if their names must be brought thus into di rect comparison, pre-eminence ought rather, to our mind, to be accorded, not as one of our contem poraries has accorded it, to the reputed author of the ''Vestiges of Creation," but, on the contrary, to Charles Knight, to that " good grey head," to that honest right hand from which have emanated other nobler works, either wholly original or thoroughly and laboriously edited, works far and' away beyond any deistical geological speculation upon cosmogony that ever was written For, has not Charles Knight taken his plane recog• nisably—among the Historians of England ? —among the Commentators on Shakspere ? among the most luminous of our National Eacycloare lists P—among the moat skilled Topo graphers of London ?—besides squandering broad cast over the land during fully one quarter of a century all those seeds of truth, scientific, artistic, and literary—seeds of truth sown by him as the Publisher, as the Editor, as the Worker, in behalf and by the authority of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge ? To him we are indebted for that famous Penny Magazine that was the pioneer and forerunner of all our cheap and wholesome, of all our instructive and entertaining periodical publioations. Upwards of thirty years ago the " Penny Magazine," under the direction of Charles Knight, enjoyed (in 1832) an average circulation of 200,0001 Yet, as Mr. Knight has himself been enabled to say now of that famous periodical,- " in it there has never been a single sentence that could lug -ime a vicious appetite, and not a paragraph that could minister to prejudices and superstitions, which a few years since were common ; there have been no excitements for the lovers of the marvellous, no tattle or abuse for the gratification of a diseased taste for personality, and above all, no party politics." No wonder that in the following year the marveiloue success sehieved by the Penny Magazine induced a man of Mr. Knight's enterprise to embark upon even so gigantic an undertaking as the publication (begun in 1.833) of the Penny Cyclopaia. Upon the labours of Charles Knight nowever, as Publisher, as Editor, as Author, iZ were superfluous here to expatiate. They are known intimately and they are honoured accordingly. His "Pictorial Shakspere" is among the very noblest editions of the greatest of our national poets, the greatest of all poets. His " London" is the most comprehensive work upon the metropolis of Engs land, of the British Empire, of the World. His " Shilling Library" will always " hold its own among cheap and popular repertories of that character. His "History of England" —utterly mistaken though we ourselves deem so very many among its views to b e —i s more i ntense ly national, is more thoroughly popular, is more com• pletely a History of England, of the English People, and not merely of the English Sovereigns, than any other work upon the same subject that could be very readily mentioned, His Once upon a Time again turning here for a moment to his less ambitious and Wore miscellaneous productions— surely those who have read it, as we have done, with so thoroughly enjoyable a satisfaction, will speak of it only as a sort of model work of its class, being, as full as an egg is of meat, crammed from cover to cover with instructive entertainment. And Charles Knight's Autobiographic " Passages of a Working Life Daring Halt a Century"—a work two.thirds of which are happily completed, lying here before ns in effect, as they do, in these two goodly volumes out just now submitted to our consideration—is a literary production that in the pervading style and manner of it, is very much of a-piece with the charmingly discursive pages last mentioned. Only here, in this later work, there is of course the added interest of a consecutive narrative, perfected, so speak, by that nameless charm which is in separable from all autobiographic confidences. As affording a taste of the - quiet humour flavouring the artative of theSe'menririals liereis Mr. Knight's comical illustrative mention of the manner in which justice was administered some half a century ago by ,ne of the then magistracy : Under the guidance of the town clerk, corporate magis trates generally got through their business decently. Some times they made little slips. Late in the swain an offender was brought before ono of our mayors, having been detected in stealing a smock-frock from a pawnbroker's door. "Look in 'Burns's Justice,'" said his worship to his son; "look in the index for smock-frook." "Can't find it, father. Not there." " What! no law against stealing smock-frocks ? El-- my heart, young fellow, but you've lad a lucky efrcape." Hardly so decorous appears to have been the system in vogue, about the same time, among those who had the management (even in a royal chapel) of the re ligious ceremonies of the Church as by LaVf gsta• blished : ex. gr,— I have see stalk (- Says Mr. Knight, a stranger civilian ,with his spurs on) into the choir of St. George's tihapel. The spur was instantly detected ; and when the bewildered man was surrounded by a bevy of white surplices as he loitered in the nave, there was no help for him but to pay the spur-money. Such inter , uptions to the beauty and solemnity of the service were not sufficient to prevent their abiding impres sions ; and thus the salt of devotion was nut wholly waistied out of me. I was, however, well nigh rushing into the desert, in going throu g h th e ceremony w hi c h was to keep 1110 in the fold. I nad diligently prepared myself for confirmation. Dr Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury, was to perform the rite. There was an absence of all solemnity, and even of decency, upon which I look back with disgust. I still sea the bishop's officers driving the young people to the altar-rails as it they were sheep gaing to the lair ; the monotonous formality at the imposition k,f hands upon the huddled batches who knelt a few minutes, and then were chased back to their seats by the impatient ministers of the solemnity. Its failure altogether to satisfy my excited feelings compelled me into a passion of tears, and I went home sus told my father that I would be a Quaker or Unitarian. I think that confirma tion confirmed whatever was sceptical in my composition; and I had to escape into the region of natural piety, and long dwell there, oefore I could become reconciled to the estab lishment which could endure such profanations. As affording a very striking contrast between what is and what hits been, the following account by Charles Knight of the duties devolving half a century back upon one of the then Volunteers will be read with the liveliest interest, we doubt not, by our Victorian Riflemen. The Cambridge organisation was complete. At Windsor, the chief business of life appeared to be volunteer drills and reviews. My father was a lieutenant in our local corps, and I was ever at his side in those midsummer marchings and counter-marchings. This volunteering, was not altogether playing at soldiers. Our volunteer had some work to perform wholly unknown to the volunteer of Queen Victoria. He had to pipe-clay his white breeches and gaiters. He had to polish the bright barrel of his musket till he could see his face in .it. "Brown Bess" was a later invention. He had to grease and flour his hair like a modern tootmau ; and then to wash the grease and flour out, till he was fit to stand at the counter and sit at the deak; like an honest tradesman. He had no railway to carry him to a review ; but marched through the night to Bulinarsh Heath, near Reading, to take his place amongst the other bold warriors of Berkshire. The discipline was not very exact. I have laughed, although I was scanda lised, to see an impudent corporal play tricks with his lieutenant's queue. Rods were sometimes left in the bar rel when a volley was fired, to the no small danger of the colonel in front. We had a yeomanry corps, composed of the choicest spirits of our town. It was commanded by a pursy wine -merchant, who was not so well - mounted as his men. On more than one occasion, when he headed a charge, they would open right and left, and leave him behind, when he roared, " Unparalleled in the annals of war, gentlemen." Full of fun as they were, our volanteers would have fought to death if the necessity had come. The volunteer of my boyhood was not altogether unprepared for war; for there was a ball practice at a target fixed in a chalk-pit. But, as far as I recollect, the hits were as few as the ordinary calculation as to the musket-firing in a field of battle—that not one shot in a hundred tell But what of that ? There was the same emulation as I have la juiced to look upon in the noble rivalry of the Wimbledon meeting of 1563. Though sixty years have made all the difference between the musket and the rifle, and more difference in the skill of th 3 volunteer the emulation both of one period and the other is derived from our ancestry. From first to last, we have never found the interest of this work flag in the perusal of it. It is precisely the very kind of autobiography we should have expected from the hand of Charles Knight—un affected, manly, vivacious, entirely devoid of self - glorification, andisflgured by evidences of designed reticence or intentional concealment, and this for the simple reason enough that a manly, truthful, honest, open nature like that of Charles Knight had noshing whatever to conceal. Enough however, if we close these remarks of oars with two very brief but sufficiently significant observations—each of them distinctive of the man—each of them a very noble panygeric. Firstly, that it will be remem bered of Charles Knight that be was the friend and fellow labourer of Brougham. Secondly, and finally, that it was more than a mere radiant witticism 01 Douglas Jerrold's when—on being asked one night by our author, on their way home together, if be (Jerrold) ',could suggest a fitting epitaph for his companion's tombstone—Jerrold answered at the streetcorner, with a hearty grasp of the hand at parting—" Good Knight !" Toddles's Highland Tour. With 21 illustrations. Pp. 150. Rantledge and Co. Under this ridiculous title —as, " The Strange Adventures of Richard Toddles and Tom Stepwell during their Journey in Scotland"—the reader is here presented with a really useful as well is entertaining guide book, showing him the way to a very cheap and, at the same time, a very delightful excursion. Daring the Nine Days occupied by Toddles and Stepwell in traversing the route marked out for themselves north of the Tweed—these two excursionists certainly contrive to make a Nine Day's Wonder of it, by seeing so much and paying so little. For, which in effect among the sights that ought to be seen upon a Scottish tour do these knapsacked lowlanders not see yonder in the land of cakes ? Loch Lomond, Glencoe, Fort William, Ben Nevis, Killiecrankie, the Trosachs, Holyrood, Melrose, Abbotsford, Drybuqh—with a multitude of other famous localities, hill and dale, river and lake, inhabited building and deserted ruin—Toddles and Stepwell visit together. And yet—at the end of all their pleasant sightseeing and gad ding about, hither and thither, they have spent absolutely not a ten-pound note a-piece! The sum total of their expenditure from the hun' of their starting upon their holiday expedition to that of their return homewards, being jotted down, item by item, during the course of their nar rative—the sum total being given upon the last page as, to a nicety, just exactly 1:18 16s. 2cl. It we are not very much mistaken, Mr M'Connell'e pencil has contributed to this pleasant little gossip ping guNe book through Scotland two or three at least out of the twenty-one illustrations scattered through it. IN TERZSTING DISCOVERY OF ROMAN REMAINS. —Ths excavations in hot Bata-street for the new wing of the Bath "United Hospital, tl.'e foundations of a large Roman building have been recently discovery 1. These foundations are exceedingly stY•ong, and indicate that the building to which they belonged must have been one of some importance. The base of pillar, turned upside down, and built into the foundation, was likewise found, and appears to have formed part of even an older structure. This week a further interesting discovery has been made, in the course of excavating the site of the house lately in the occupation of Mr William Foote, Lower Borough-walls. This discovery consists of a lar g e portion of a beautiful tasse lated pavement. The pavement s e e ms to have formed the flooring of a room about 12 feet s Vare, and rests upon pil lars and hollow tiles—the tiles having be.en used fur heating purposes. The design of the p avementis differe2 t to any found mounded in Bath before : in the censre is a rose, which is se: by several borders of geometrical pattern. Enough of the pavement remains to enable an accurate sketch of its entLre design to be taken, The foundation of the dwelling just re moved was built upon this hollow Roman floor, and the pave meat is in consequence much crushed and thrown out of its level. A second pavement, composed of larger tesserce, ad joins this first one, and appears to have been the floor of a passage or vestibule leading to the apartment. Tracings et the designs are being taken, and the interesting remains will be preserved with jealous core. Some fragments of Roman pottery have also been turned up in the course of the exca vations. The discovery has come just in time for the meet ing of the British Association, and is to be regarded as a valuable addition to the relics connected wi th the Roman occupation of the oily of King Bladud.—Bath Chronicle. A call of £5 per share has been .made by the Continental Bank Corporation, t o be paid on or before the 10th proximo. • Daring the last few days there leas been very little animation in the Foreign and Colonial Pro duce Markets, Sugar• have barely sustained former prices, while coffee has also been rather cheaper. ['ea has been in moderate request at steady rates; while in rice, fruit, spices, and tal!ow there hay. )ten no dealings of importance. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 41s 9d, and list three mouths deli very 439 9d per cwt. RAIL WAYS. etiAb. Aeccunt. 595 995 -- 080 912 50 916 25 Orloi.nB Northern Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto •Southern 640 .. 641 25 Western ... 515 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lou , bs.rd .. 538 75 ~ 538 75 North of Spain Saragossa 507 50 .. 507 50 Ditto to Barcelwaa 232 50 235 t _ - , 1)1114 1111111.:41: HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, August 11 . Her Majesty and the Royal Family drove out is the morning and afternoon of yesterday. The Right Hon. E. Cardwell arrived at Osborne, and had the honour of dining with the Queen a nd Royal Family. Prince and Princess Leiningen also dined with her Majesty. His Royal Highness Prince William of Prussia, attended by Baroness Dobeneok and Major Von Sehweinitz, left Osborne this morning on his return to Germany. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary will leave fhe Cottage, Kew, to-day, on a visit to their KeY!' l Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales to Scotland. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have been entertaining the following company at Kin:1 11 ° 1°11 Castle, during the week;--Marie Marchioness °f Ailesbury, the Marquis of Hartington, M.P. , the Earl of Coventry, the Earl and Countess of West moreland, Viscount Canterbury, Lord ProbY1 11°1). George Fitzwilliani, Mr Leslie, &c. The Duchess of Wellington has left Apsley Hou se for Glasgow, to meet his grace, who left town a few days since. Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has left bolton Castle, on a visit to the Ear! of Sandwich et liinchinbrooke. The Earl and Countess Spencer have been ent e " taining a large party at Althurpe Park during the week. The Earl of Coventry left town yesterday f or Hun gerford, Berkshire. The Earl and Countess of Morley and Laal. Catherine have left town for Sunning Hill; Viscount Boringdon has left for Scotland for the sho o t ing season. Count Maffei has returned to town from C° W . to take the direction of the Italian Legation duriee the absence of his Excellency the Marquis d'Azegilt°: Lord 14:allover has left town for the Conun erl her ladyship is at Llanover, near Abergavenq. Lord and Lady Tenaplemore will shortly' eav d Bruton-street for Danbrody Park, county Welter THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE ARCHERS.—It is intended to present a bonnet bhe the Society of the Ancient Archers of Kilwinning patron . Prince of Wales on having accepted the office of (which the Prince Consort also held). The bonnet is e 2 ;.. quisitely got up, and rtfLcts the greatest credit on all coll cerned. It is in shape the same as worn by the archer_s while shooting at papingo, and the inside is lined with white satin, and in the centre the Prince of Wales' coat c d : arms is beautifully embroidered, and below the W9r SCOT T ' orig " LAI Dien," 1183—the date when the society „vas l nated.—Edinburgh Daily _Review. ONE OF THE HINDOO GODS OF DEATIL—A STRANGE AND HORRIBLE IDOL :—" W iEn iarg° large protruding eyes, prominent nose, curve d at the n os. trils and point, wide mouth, thick, sensual -looking two upper and two lower tusks, it presented a very rerne"`a able and by no means pleasing appearance. On the Il ea was a tiara studded with cleverly chiselled death's heads the long ears were pierced with ornaments very rail: 1114 ' 1/ cut, and from the cartilage of both were suspended hideou! skulls. Numbers of chains were hung round the neck, ant left a loose scarf fell across the broad chest f rom the shoulder to the right. Massive bracelets encircled the writs and biceps, and the right arm was slightly raised, or giving emphasis to an oracle. A belt of skulls encircled the corpulent stomach, and the left hand rested on a ing-stick or sceptre of stone.—Mr d'Almeida's book de' scriptive of " Lite in Java," recently published by and Blackett. SINGULAR WlLLS.—There lately died at Szepeti Vallarya an old man of 78 years of age, whose will con' tained a clause leaving 100,000 cigars for those who reigl it attend his funeral. The eccentic testator also expressed his desire that his friends should not leave the house of mourning without drinking to his memory all the wise left in his cellar. It is said that the wish of the de ceased was entirely fulfilled.—Brazil and River .Plate Mail. THE NEW ATTRACTION AT THE ALHAMERA.-- 4 The " little" wonder in every sense of the word-' for the lady is only 4 feet 8 inches in height—Marga ret Douglas, is hastening merrily and gamely on to the coin' pletion of her herculean task of walking a thousand miles in a thousand consecutive hours. The bulletins announce the performance of 192 miles, but there is no a ppearanc e °f effort or fatigue in the champion female pedestrian ef the world—who, in the opinion of some of the most experienced " professors," will bring her task to the same success° issue she did in Australia. The daily and nightly increase in g number of visitors attest in the most unmi stakeaM manner the awakening interest of the public to witness the little lady's performance. DANGERS OF A " HEADER" IN SH ALLO WATER.—We hear almost every year of sou 3, serious or even fatal accident at watering places arl9to from the dangerous habit of plunging head foremost water that is too shallow. This should never be done n' less the water is ac least 4or 5 feet deep. Surgical boar: are full of cases of broken vertebrae, but unluckily ale) ? d), not known to the persons who need the caution. in his edition of Chelius, tells of a sailor, 40 y ea rs iotfoitho in good health, who jumped headlong from a ship i 3 sea to bathe, a sail being spread a few feet below the : harks • to receive the bathers and t o p ro t ec t them from AD tbeback on lt is supposed that his head wa s violently thro mediutely coming in contact with the water or sail, as it t/3° muscles became enotionlesa. When got on deck, 't _ r eed of the limbs and trunk b e low tho shoulders we re obse to to be aralysed, and respiratin was performe d b e Y eeer e diaphragm alone. The circulation and tereperatfte:to natural, and the senses perfect. to a few hours and be occurrence of the accident, vomiting corun3encedt came more frequent till he died at the hours. Upon examination, the fourth and fifth c fore force , ' vertebra were found completely crushed and • A 10 0- expiratioelo;ical wards on the spinal marrow, which was crushed anuseore. rated. This preparation is in St, Thomas's • 112 , rovi Another man threw himself into a river to bathe height of 7 or S feet, the water being only 3 fee t dee %) t he came up to the surface and immediately fell bat ro t to bottom. The bystanders observing he made at ) the swim, drew him out and lifted him insenrsible 11Pc:ideat, te a r bank. He died .n 10 hours and a half after the layerfeb" and after death it was found that the fifth ceeviee' was broken across, and the two pieces wer e c°l3 :, P O of II crushed in upon the spinal cord. So bathers beew— tst "header" in sb.allow water. Plunge deep Dr uo —Medical 2emes and Gazette. .1 Of r , o L or ds STAINED GLASS COMPETITION. --1. -L i " - • to the Committee of Council on Edneatio:a obtain for the South Kensington Museum a d eeign s oin stained glass window, having a northern deslt for semicircular head, and of the following dint e t, o w indovi 18ft 9in high to crown of arch, by llfc wide. sorrier" th e may ler seen on a staircase at the north-west ti..onoo:f Great Northern Court. The architectural decora ter. 00 staircase will be of an Ital.an Renaissance charade of subject of the design is furnished by the 33111 3. 4 Ecclesiasticus, verse 24 to the end of the chapter. foot. 03 deign is to be on- the scale of one inch to t cc:dot:red. It is to be accompanie d b y a lulls: zil:ceesret;i7 iz ° oO f t the deieign of a sufficient portion to dews' the ex ecute d and a specimen of a portion o f the design aaro glass, of the fullsize. 4 . The com p etition is sips; ; for t he of all nations. 5. A sum of £4O will be award Of design which appears to be most euitable, and:llsb% joe 120 for the next hest desi g n. 6. The judges tell ° II strueted to award the prizes to the designs probable o artistic merits, without reference to the ed v to execution. 7. Each design must ccomPe . r _ „ a Do sealed tender stating the coat at which the desige' s `_:,7 t he executed, the time the executioet is likely to take, au 14d'teo. name and address of the artist. 8. The designs tw on. ders muet be sent to the South Kensington gas' w ill • 1805. 9. The tumes ot the j ude° t Do o r before lay 1 , be published hereafter. 10. The designs to 1 ",,, 0 de , pr i e• ea are awaru l ed will become tho property of cu te pa rcels: l f , which however does not bin d itself to &te a 00 , e i t h e r of them. —By order of the Co mm ittee of Collic °' Educa tion. Wl O FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE AT CAR t ee —On Wednesday night Mr James George RiteryidoB; t! deputy coroner for East Middlesex, held an jet' deafe th Dock Hotel, Upper East Smithfield, respectin.so; of William Reardon, aged 45 years, vehn L .:no wis e under the following frightful circunistanceeliewas ea7 was a labourer. On Friday afternoon l..iat. jaooeliet gaged with other men on board the ship 2st alongside the Carron Wharf, Lowe.r field (near St. Katharine's Docks) in rafstuniges_2lof eraa pig iron from the hold of the vesseldb e hua'd be _ The men overloaded one portion, an T a ., t ow tioned by crane _oed Mr. Hickman, the stevedooref.theve raised about a ton of metal the chainn fell upon the ee i c ri e uv snapped, and the whole masa of iro portions milit 11 9 ' 7°13°11 the lower part of the vessel. De g tanenus. Verdict, D EeTaa E the aceidttea.al death. W EST INDIAN EN CMAB E . ll , E ntigu. a dop!" , to The Legislature et the colony ut l local act far e 3 r tYlu above acts, and passed the Pialte same into execution,